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PARK AND 
CEMETERY. 
site from which to watch the incoming ships and the 
outgoing ironclads. 
Ferry Park, sometimes called Tacoma Statuary 
Garden, is embellished with some fine imported statu- 
ary from Genoa, presented by C. P. Ferry. When 
finished it will be a beautiful monument to the donor, 
who did much to encourage the building of parks and 
boulevards. 
Small tracts on south Seventh street. North E 
street, Spanaway, 380 acres, and the Parkway, 86 
acres, are not improved. 
We are just beginning to think that we need good 
roads, and when the plans now in the hands of the 
engineers are completed, all the boulevards will be 
too feet wide, except some five or more miles, which 
will be 150 or 120 feet. The system takes in all the 
lakes south of the city and connects with the grand 
natural avenue to Mount Tacoma, the Government 
Reserve and Paradise Valley, now being built by the 
county and the Federal Government. It also connects 
with the East Side boulevard to be built five miles 
long by private property owners, and also with the 
Tacoma and Seattle boulevard, now in the hands of a 
committee. 
I hope to live to see all these grand avenues com- 
pleted, and have recommended to the committees in 
building the boulevards to preserve all the natural 
flora on each side. If this is done no country can equal 
the scenery of these roads. 
The area of the different parks is as follows : Point 
Defiance, 640 acres ; Lincoln, 45 acres ; South Park, 
12 acres; A street, i acre; Spanaway, 380 acres; 
Wright, 30 acres; Totem Pole, pj acre; Ferry, 
p2 acre; St. Helen’s Avenue, p; acre; South Second 
street, 34 acre; South Seventh street, 34 acre; North 
E street, 34 acre ; Parkway to Spanaway, 86 acres ; 
McKinley, 26 acres ; Puget Sound, 25 acres, besides 
other land set aside for park purposes. 
The approximate cost of the system to date is 
$200,000, and the annual appropriation in 1905, was 
$10,000, in 1906, $t8,ooo, and for 1907, $25,000. This 
money is used for the building and maintenance of 
all parks. The city water works supplies the arti- 
ficial lake of one acre in Wright Park and the two 
acre lake in Point Defiance Park. Spanaway Park 
has a natural lake a mile long and a half mile in 
width. There are eighteen men on the payroll with 
more to be added in 1907. 
A STONE BRIDGE OF GRACEFUL DESIGN. ELIZABETH PARK, HARTFORD. CONN. 
The bridge shown in the accompanying illustration 
erected in Elizabeth Park, Hartford, Conn., is an 
interesting piece of stone construction, and a struc- 
ture of very graceful proportion. The span is 
an elliptical arch, the curve of the intrados being a 
true semi-eclipse of 24 feet span, and 4 feet rise, with 
the springing line one foot above the surface of the 
water. The arch ring is i foot 9 inches in thickness 
at the crown, and 3 feet 6 inches at the springing. Ex- 
cept on the face stones, however, the line of the ex- 
trados is not defined, as the arch ring, spandrel back- 
ing, and abutments are one mass of concrete. The 
arch is 32 feet long, out to out of face stones. 
The spandrel and parapet walls present an unbroken 
surface from the top of the arch ring to the opening. 
Each end of the arch ring consists of 25 trap rock 
boulders, each dressed on three sides, one to conform 
to the soffit of the arch, and two in planes normal to 
the curve of the intrados to form joints with the ad- 
jacent arch stones. The exposed faces of the span- 
drel and parapet walls consist of field stones, 3 to 6 
inches in diameter, set closely, in cement mortar, 
which was afterwards raked out to a depth of one or 
two inches. The copings were made in short sections, 
of a very dense concrete mixture, and placed in posi- 
tion after hardening. The total cost of the bridge was 
$3,350.00. The low arch of the bridge is quite im- 
posing and graceful in line. 
The structure was erected complete by the park 
force of workmen from a design by a civil engineer. 
STONE BRIDGE IN ELIZABETH PARK, HARTFORD, CONN. 
